Phantom limb pain can be a debilitating and confusing experience ... Interviewer: Now, Dr. Hansen, I guess I'm just a bit of a layperson here, but a $15 mirror that you can get at a big box store can ...

This is known as phantom limb pain. It’s most common in arms ... of substance abuse before you take one of these drugs. Mirror box therapy. Picture a box with no lid. It has two holes -- one ...

Mirror box therapy involves an amputee placing a ... solid evidence to back an intriguing approach used to alleviate phantom limb pain in amputees. Professor Liz Franz and colleagues at Otago ...

Today, phantom limb syndrome can be treated a variety of ... A non-chemical treatment is the mirror box, a lidless box that is partitioned through the middle by a two-sided mirror.

And for others, the phantom limb feels not only present ... Ramachandran came up with an unusual treatment. He placed a mirror in a cardboard box and instructed the patient to place his existing ...

Boston - Viewing the reflected image of an intact limb in a mirror can fool the mind into thinking that a lost leg or foot still exists, dramatically relieving phantom limb pain, researchers reported ...

Peterson previously tried mirror box therapy but found no relief ... you hit your finger with a hammer and experienced that kind of pain. Phantom limb pain can be every bit as real as any of ...

Local veterans living with an amputation are getting a chance to use virtual reality in a way they likely had never imagined. A clinical trial of a therapy to alleviate phantom limb pain is ...